New research, led by the University and involving a team of international scientists, suggests that an extreme global warming event 56 million years ago was driven by massive CO2 emissions from volcanoes, during the formation of the North Atlantic Ocean.
The study, published in Nature, used a combination of new geochemical measurements and novel global climate modelling to show that atmospheric CO2 more than doubled in less than 25 thousand years during the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) – with volcanoes squarely to blame.
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